"Sunday I got to read about 113 pages of 'Pride and Predjudice.' Don't know when I'll get to read the rest of it. It is real interesting and quite a bit different from present day novels."
-- Letter from my grandmother, Bloomington, Kans., to my father, Southwestern College, Winfield, Kans., Tuesday, April 14, 1942. My grandmother was a schoolteacher, homemaker and farmer (although I imagine she referred to herself as a farmer's wife). She obviously had very little time for recreational reading. Pride and Prejudice had been made into a movie in 1940 starring Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, and Edward Ashley, with a screenplay by Aldous Huxley and Jane Murfin. (source: imdb.com)
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